Professor Emory Holloway (1885-1977), whose Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for biography, taught at Adelphi from 1914 to 1937 and provided the core of The Walt Whitman Collection. It includes over 100 books of poetry, biographies, bibliographies, criticism, as well as news articles and papers from the Walt Whitman Fellowship.